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The first six months of 2017 were the second-hottest on record NASDA data indicates, The Guardianreported. NASA scientists found that temperatures are nearly one degree (.94) Celsius higher than the 1950 to 1980 average.

What’s truly disturbing is that the only reason why the first six months of 2016 were a little hotter than the first six months of this year was the absence of El Nino, Guardian reporter Dana Nuccitelli noted. El Nino is a phenomenon in the Pacific that can distort weather patterns.

How Global Warming Threatens the World’s Food Supply

If the prospect of increased droughts and wildfires caused by climate change was not scary enough now there is the possibility of food shortages, The Washington Post Wonkblogreported. Research from the Chatham House think tank in London indicates that weather can disrupt global trade leading food shortages.

The comedy of errors known as Andrea Rossi’s lawsuit against Tom Darden and Industrial Heat is over. The jury trial before U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga ended after just 48 minutes in court on July 5, 2017.

Rossi and Darden’s attorneys apparently hammered out some sort of agreement and shut down the farce, a post on LENR Forumposted on E-Cat World indicates. This came after a mistrial and a failure to seat a Jury on July 29, 2017. The court apparently took the Fourth of July holiday off then came back and ended the trial.

No details of the settlement are available because Rossi and Industrial Heat have apparently signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). That means Rossi can post to his Journal of Nuclear Physics blog again but cannot discuss the litigation.

President Trump made good on his promise to roll back Barack Obama’s restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. The move was announced by new Environmental Protection Agency Director and climate-change denier Scott Pruitt on March 28.

Trump and Pruitt claim that the move will increase coal burning and the number of coal-mining jobs. Something that even Robert Murray the CEO of America’s largest private coal miner admitted would not happen. Even though Murray is a strong supporter of Trump’s actions, he toldThe Guardian that Trump’s move will not restore any coal mining jobs.

Trump moved to get rid of the Clean Power Plan; which was designed to cut US carbon emissions by 32% by 2030. Murray was one of a number of observers who pointed out that a glut of coal on the market, falling demand and prices and mechanized mining means there will be no new coal-mining jobs. Fortunately there is other work available, the U.S. solar power industry employed more people in 2016 than the coal industry, Mother Jonesreported.

The effect of climate change on wildlife and the environment might have been grossly underestimated. Nearly half the threatened mammals and quarter of the birds might be impacted by global warming, a study published in the Climate Change Journal indicates.

“Many experts have got these climate assessments wrong – in some cases, massively so,” coauthor Dr. James Watson of the University of Queensland toldThe Guardian. Watson and his colleagues analyzed 130 studies and found that many species have already been harmed by global warming.

“Many risk assessments are simply blind to the fact that climate change is happening now,” Watson said. He thinks that a great deal of the damage from climate change has already occurred.

Watson’s study concentrated on animals on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s “Red List” of threatened species. It contrasts sharply with earlier assessments that showed only seven percent of animals were impacted by climate change.

Our friends at the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP) have put an intriguing statement on their Facebook Page. Here it is:

“What if you had a document that…

- Showed nuclear synthesis without harmful radiation

- had two catalysts, a big and a small one

- could self-sustain

- operated between familiar temperatures

- had demonstrated melt-downs

- works as a fluid

- could be enhanced by other catalysts

Does this mean that the project has actually achieved a sustainable low energy nuclear reaction (LENR)? I don’t know but it is rather fascinating. The project has been reporting some impressive results lately so it might be possible.

New Old LENR Patent?

It might refer to a 1994 patent application for a “Hydride Condensation Process” filed by Richard A. Day and Kenneth A. Rubinson of the University of Cincinnati. Patent WO 1996006434 A1 is for a:

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed four of the claims in Andrea Rossi’s lawsuit against Industrial Heat on July 19, 2016. Four other claims were left intact so the suit is moving forward.

United States District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga took the action; when she reviewed Industrial Heat’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The four claims Altonaga dismissed were:

Count II: Breach of Contract for Exceeding the Scope of the License. Altonaga found that Industrial Heat did not violate a license agreement by trying to get a European patent for Rossi’s ecat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology. Instead she found that Industrial Heat may have infringed upon his patents.

Count V: Civil Conspiracy. The judge found there was no conspiracy to misappropriate Rossi’s intellectual property. Although she did find that Rossi’s claims that Industrial Heat owner Tom Darden; and his partners, misappropriated his intellectual property were valid.

Count VII Constructive and Equitable Fraud. The judge found that Darden and company did abuse their confidential relationship with Rossi.

Andrea Rossi is now accusing Tom Darden’s Industrial Heat of trying to sell his own e-cat low nuclear reaction (LENR) technology back to him.

“As usual, the guys of Industrial Heat (IH) are ready to sell what they do not own; now they are offering us to buy back our license, the license that they do not have anymore,” Rossi wrote at his blog on June 23, 2016, “I wonder if they will try to sell the Coliseum of Rome as well. IH has no more any license related to our IP (intellectual property); and whomever is interested to us in North America, Central America, South America, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Emirates must contact exclusively.”

The remains of one of Alexander Parkhomov's reactors.

Rossi’s company; Leonardo Corporation, terminated Industrial Heat’s license to market the ecat technology on June 2, 2016, a press release indicates. Therefore we have to wonder what Industrial Heat is up to.

Many more details of Rossi’s lawsuit against Industrial Heat LLC are now available, because a copy of the actual lawsuit has been posted online.

Not surprisingly, the information contained in the suit is very different than many of the media accounts. Some interesting new details about Rossi, Leonardo Corporation and the e-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology are now available.

Andrea Rossi

The major target of the suit is Tom Darden. Darden’s partner John T. Vaughn, Industrial Heat LLC (a US company), IPH International B.B. (a Dutch company) and Darden’s hedge fund; Cherokee Investment Partners LLC are also named as defendants.

Rossi and Leonardo Corporation; which is described as a “Florida Corporation,” are named as the plaintiffs.

Rossi claims that Darden and the other defendants defrauded him by misappropriating his intellectual property rights in the e-cat.

The relationship between Andrea Rossi’s Leonardo Corporation and Tom Darden’s Industrial Heat LLC has apparently fallen apart. The Leonardo Corporation has filed a federal lawsuit against Industrial Heat for breach of an industrial license and misappropriation of intellectual property on April 5, 2015, a press release states.

Rossi is apparently claiming that Industrial Heat violated the patent and other agreements relating to his ecat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). Last year, Rossi sold Industrial Heat a license for the rights to the ecat technology.

Miami's Federal Courthouse the future of eCat could be decided here

The suit is apparently holding up the release of the results of the third party validation test of ecat. That test which lasted 352 days is apparently done but Rossi cannot release the results because of the pending lawsuit. The press release seemed to confirm this claim with the flowing statements:

There’s another very good reason to be afraid of global warming it could cause serious food shortages. Reports from NASA and other organizations indicate that rising temperatures created by greenhouse gases could make it a lot harder to grow food in the near future.

Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist and Climate Expert.

More and more regions of the Earth are simply getting too hot to raise crops in satellite images reveal, NASA’s Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan toldBusiness Insider. Temperatures over 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) interfere with photosynthesis – the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates (food) – according to Stofan.

A NASA analysis of global temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2014 revealed that the number of places in the world where temperatures regularly reach those numbers is growing fast. This includes some heavily populated areas including Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and Southern Africa.